About ESPRO
ESPRO was founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, by inventor Bruce Constantine, who built the brand's reputation around a single idea: engineer the French press itself, rather than accept the same three-part mesh design every other manufacturer uses. The company was acquired by Wisconsin appliance maker Regal Ware in 2020, then sold in 2023 to DKK, a Toronto-based lifestyle beverage company that also owns the Viva and Liiton brands. In 2025, ESPRO opened its first-ever cafe in Toronto, which now doubles as the brand's official headquarters -- a full-circle move for a company that started as a manual-brewing equipment maker and has since built out its own retail presence around the product.
ESPRO's core engineering claim is the patented Dual Micro-Filter, which the brand says filters coffee 9 to 12 times finer than a standard press mesh and seals the grounds off the moment you plunge, stopping extraction so the last cup tastes the same as the first. That design won the Specialty Coffee Association of America's Best New Piece of Consumer Equipment (non-electrical) award in 2016 and a WorldTeaExpo New Product Award the same year, and CNN separately named the ESPRO P3 the Best French Press in a 2025 roundup. The lineup today runs from countertop presses like the P5 and P7 to the ultralight P0 travel press, all built around the same double micro-filter mechanism rather than the loose single-mesh plunger most competitors still ship.
Brand website: espro.com
What ESPRO makes
ESPRO's range runs wider than the products we review. The lines we know best from our own testing are marked with a star:
P5 French Press
double micro-filter French press with a protective outer shell over the glass beaker -- our featured pick — featured on Brew Gazette
P7 French Press
all-stainless double micro-filter press built for durability over the glass P5
P3 French Press
compact double micro-filter press, named Best French Press by CNN in 2025
P0 Ultralight Travel Coffee Press
compact double micro-filter press built for travel and camping
Brewing accessories
replacement micro-filters and spare parts for the press lineup
Why we recognized ESPRO
The Brew Gazette Top Brand recognition isn't paid for and can't be applied for. We award it to the brands whose products consistently stand out in our hands-on category reviews. ESPRO earned it on the strength of the products below, evaluated the same way every product on this site is: bought, brewed with daily, and judged on what lands in the cup.
ESPRO products we rated highly
ESPRO P5 French Press with Double Micro-Filter, 32oz
The patented double micro-filter is the reason to buy this press -- it filters an order of magnitude finer than a standard mesh, so the cup comes out with near-pour-over clarity and almost none of the silt that pools in the bottom of an ordinary French press. Because the filter acts as a basket that seals the grounds off the moment you plunge, extraction effectively stops, so the coffee doesn't keep stewing toward bitterness while it sits -- a real, tastable advantage over every single-mesh press. It's the grit-free answer for people who love the body of immersion coffee but hate the sludge, and it doubles as a strong cold-brew maker for the same filtration reason. The borosilicate beaker sits inside a protective outer shell, so it's better armored than a bare glass press while still letting you watch the brew.
Read the 8 Best French Presses of 2026 guide →What earned ESPRO the recognition
- A top pick in our French press testing, earning its place specifically for filtration clarity that ordinary single-mesh presses can't match.
- Independently verified design credibility: the Specialty Coffee Association of America named the P5's double micro-filter design Best New Piece of Consumer Equipment (non-electrical) in 2016, and CNN separately named the ESPRO P3 the Best French Press in 2025.
- The patented Dual Micro-Filter seals grounds off the instant you plunge, stopping extraction so the first cup and the last cup out of the same press taste the same -- a real engineering advantage over standard mesh presses.
- Opened its first-ever cafe in Toronto in 2025, now serving as the brand's official headquarters -- a company built specifically around French press brewing rather than a general kitchenware line that added one.
- A focused product lineup -- countertop presses, an all-steel model, and an ultralight travel press -- built entirely around the same double micro-filter mechanism instead of chasing unrelated categories.